The African Diaspora International Film Festival is back
. “We’ve found that [the Washington] audience is very receptive,” says N’Daw-Spech. “It’s a very global community here and people are curious. A lot of people have traveled and know what it means to be Black from anywhere in the world.”
While much has changed in filmmaking in terms of technology and access, N’Daw-Spech says that ADIFF’s core has and will continue to remain the same: “We haven’t changed at all our editorial line. We haven’t changed at all our mission and vision. We knew from the beginning what we wanted to do. We haven’t gone corporate—we are an independent festival. And we’re still completely focused on bringing challenging, thought-provoking films about the Black diaspora to the Black diaspora.
Judice noted that the film festival in general serves as a cultural incubator. “As a Black filmmaker, connecting to Black film festivals has always been super important in my career,” she says. “Because when I started filmmaking, I was the only Black girl in the room. My first film festivals really told me that you have to connect to your people and have an experience that supports and cares for you. Not to say other film festivals don’t do that—they just do it in a completely different way.
Bringing people together is a big part of the goal. “Ultimately, we as Black people don’t know one another,” says N’Daw-Spech. “You have Black Mexicans, Black Peruvians, you have Black Haitians, you have people from all over the continent. The Black experience is rich. So the festival films that we select bring history, bring understanding, and bring knowledge about that rich experience.
, an award-winning documentary about the inception of house music in 1970s Chicago. The festival closes Sunday evening. Other notable films are
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